The best aspects of Cardiff University Kazakhstan are the great chance to speak with foreign tutors, improving listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, and communication with other students. The worst aspects are perhaps the awkward structure of exams and the timetable that I have friday which 1st lesson starts in the morning and then 2nd lesson starts in the afternoon however other days normally starts at 9:00 am and ends at 1:00 pm.

The best aspect of this online learning is the communicating with tutor quickly via Wi-Fi or Network. The worst aspects of e-learning are missing some class materials from your mind, more exhausted, sitting at home - not good, and it's not study place, a lot of disconnections when you are trying to connect to lecture meetings or lagging Wi-Fi, a lack of technics such as laptop, computer, tablet and the sleeplessness.

Best - Student life is phenomenal, along with the location and proximity to the city centre! The facilities are also really good including the libraries and centre for student life (CSL) which provides great spaces for studying individually or part of groups. The CSL also provides great student support with the likes of career advisers and event where you can meet potential fututre employers at meet and greets with some major companies. The students union is just fantastic! It includes a pub with a great atmosphere, food and drink, so many other places to eat around the building including bagels and fresh falafels, as well as a shop to get all the grocery essentials and even a Tech store. The union is also home to YOLO, the nightclub on Wednesdays which is just amazing and great opportunity to meet new people and have a great night. Improvements - the student area of Cardiff (Cathays) is fairly interesting. not particularly related to Cardiff university but university in general is the significant burden of a student loan and the financial support available and the stresses that come associated to it. Living as a student can be extremely challenging at times!

the taught is most taught in the form of lectures but also has integrated workshops and practical sessions. Normally, we would have a few lectures a day with the occasion day off here and there! Staff within the school of earth and environmental sciences are so knowledgeable and really passionate about what they do, so this provides a fantastic opportunity to learn new things. The majority also work in industry which enables an understanding of how and what things are like working in the real world. Furthermore, as part of my course we have week long fieldtrips away which are so fun! They also enable us to put all of the theory in practice and do some real world data collection. Previous years we have gone to Pembrokeshire, which was beautiful but this we we have the amazing privilege of going to Switzerland with expenses covered by the university! Fortunately, there are no formal end of year examinations, instead we have asses practical's and coursework, including scientific report writing, policy brief writing and even some fun ones like making a podcast or creating an infographic and blog!

Talybont South was great! was also surrounded by other universty halls like talybont north and talybont court so there was 1000+ studnets living in one location. this along with the 24 hour security made the complex seems really safe and perfect for settling into university life. the flat was for 8 people and had everything we needed, including all the essentials like toaster, kettle, fridge etc! The halls were only a 30-40 minute walk away from the main building so in a relatively good location. The wifi was great as well as well as the management of the property. i would say it is good value for money as it was a great place to live during my first year at university and had all my bills included so didn't have to worry about anything like that which makes settling into university life that little bit easier. However, since i lived in the halls prices have gone up with the cost of living crisis and energy bills increasing. From what i can remember, there wasn't anything particularly i didn't like about living in talybont south. at night on wednesdays, fridays and saturdays it can be exceptionally noisy but that is of course expected!